Dallas elementary teacher wins Project Green Eco-Educator Award

This week we're announcing WFAA's Project Green Eco-Educator winners! These are teachers in the community who exemplify leadership, creativity, and execution of projects educating students about protecting and improving the environment.

Ms. Blount-Lindsay is helping her students understand the impacts of plastics on our environment. It is important for each student to understand their own contributions to see what a growing problem it is!

She encouraged her students to share their message through art made from the plastic they collected on campus.

"I wanted the students to connect with their use of plastic and the effects it has on the environment within their own ecology," she said. "Since ecology means 'home,' this is a part of their home."